this is the last desparate throw of the dice by arch-fascist zelensky who is following nato orders to the letter
kursk has a special place in collective russian memory of the great patriotic war..
did somebody say "ardennes offensive" "
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"..MOSCOW, August 21. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops lost up to 300 servicemen and 26 armored vehicles in the Kursk area over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
A total of more than 4,400 enemy servicemen have been destroyed during the hostilities.
Fighters of the Akhmat special force are preparing to repel a strike by Ukrainian forces, which are now busy regrouping in the Kursk area, said Akhmat commander Major General Apty Alaudinov, who is also a deputy chief at the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces.
TASS has put together the key facts about the situation.
Progress of the operation to destroy Ukrainian formations
- Units of the battlegroup North, supported by army aviation and artillery fire, thwarted attempts by enemy assault groups to attack the settlements of Komarovka, Korenevo, Malaya Loknya and Russkaya Konopelka.
- Strikes were delivered on clusters of the enemy's manpower and equipment in the areas of Apanasovka, Borki, Vishnyovka, Kositsa, Nizhny Klin, Snagost, Sverdlikovo and Kazachya Loknya.
- Russian aviation struck assembly areas of personnel and military equipment of Ukrainian reserves in the areas of Belopolye, Boyaro-Lezhachi, Glukhov, Krasnopolye, Novye Virki, Pokrovka, Pisarevka, Mogritsa and Yunakovka in the Sumy Region.
Ukrainian losses
- Over the past day, the enemy lost up to 300 soldiers and 26 armored vehicles, including six tanks, three armored personnel carriers, 17 armored fighting vehicles, as well as two motor vehicles, four artillery units and 2 MLRS launchers.
- During the combat operations, Ukraine lost a total of more than 4,400 servicemen, 65 tanks, 27 infantry fighting vehicles, 53 armored personnel carriers, 316 armored fighting vehicles, 133 motor vehicles, 31 artillery units, five anti-aircraft missile systems, nine multiple launch rocket systems, including three HIMARS and one MLRS, six electronic warfare stations, four pieces of engineering equipment, including two obstacle clearing vehicles and one UR-77 mine-clearing unit.
i prefer to let the historians have the last word
comrade stalin
fighting fascists in the kursk
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